A lot of people have made Game of Thrones-themed videos
So the fifth season premiere of Game of Thrones is going to air this Sunday. You probably knew that, and you are not alone. The amount of Thrones-related content flooding the Internet over the last few days has been almost overwhelming. The show was popular before, but it seems to be approaching a level of pop culture penetration so concentrated that it’s in danger of collapsing in on itself like a dying star. Either that, or it’ll just keep growing, and the seventh season premiere will be the modern-day equivalent of the moon landing.
Anyway, here are some of the more notable videos floating around out there.
The Bellhops from Comedy Central’s Key & Peele recap Game of Thrones in typically hilarious fashion, throwing themselves into their reenactment with such force that I’m ready to start requesting a web series where they do this after every episode. Good luck calling Khal Drogo anything other than “Big Dave Navarro” after this. The Red Wedding is “a straight four-for-one,” and the Hound was, “Kilt! Slowly. By omission.” See? We need a web series.
Remember a while back, when it was announced that there might be a TV series based The Legend of Zelda coming to Netflix, and that it would be like “Game of Thrones for families?“ That may or may not actually happen, but if it does, producers would do well to take cues from this excellent reworking on the Game of Thrones opening animation, tweaked to feature a folding map of the world from The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. True, variations on the show’s opening cinematic are almost too numerous to count, but this one is extremely well done.
Audubon Zoo in New Orleans made a Game of Thrones-themed video recasting some of its animal attractions as members of the great houses of Westeros! The video itself isn’t that remarkable, unless you’re way into the scientific names of animals (also, see if you can spot the taxidermy in-joke in the title, all you taxidermy enthusiasts in the audience), but it stands as an example of how everybody everywhere seems to want a piece Game of Thrones nowadays.
Finally, the folks at Team Coco snagged George R.R. Martin himself for a cameo in their “Lil Thrones” video, which reimagines the events of the series as an animated kids show. Frankly, the Martin cameo is about all the video has going for it. I’d have preferred he show up in the Key & Peele video instead, perhaps as a passerby who tells the Bellhops to calm down because it’s just a story. Yeesh.
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